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Highlights: #204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
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Oct 30, 2024 |
Highlights: Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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Oct 21, 2024 |
Highlights: #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes
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Oct 15, 2024 |
Highlights: #202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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Oct 04, 2024 |
Highlights: #201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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Sep 30, 2024 |
Highlights: #200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
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Sep 18, 2024 |
Highlights: #199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
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Sep 12, 2024 |
Highlights: #198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects
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Sep 09, 2024 |
Highlights: #197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task
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Sep 05, 2024 |
Highlights: #196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
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Aug 30, 2024 |
Highlights: #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
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Aug 19, 2024 |
Highlights: #194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
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Aug 12, 2024 |
Highlights: #193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war
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Jul 31, 2024 |
Highlights: #192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
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Jul 25, 2024 |
Off the Clock #5: Leaving 80k with Maria Gutierrez Rojas
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Jul 23, 2024 |
Highlights: #191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
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Jul 19, 2024 |
Highlights: #191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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Jul 11, 2024 |
Highlights: #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
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Jun 21, 2024 |
Highlights: #189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
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Jun 12, 2024 |
Highlights: #188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
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Jun 06, 2024 |
Off the Clock #4 (fka Actually After Hours): One Boxing with Julian Hazell
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Jun 03, 2024 |
Highlights: #187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a “space bastard”
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May 28, 2024 |
Highlights: #186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
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May 15, 2024 |
Highlights: #185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
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May 02, 2024 |
Highlights: #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
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Apr 25, 2024 |
Actually After Hours #3: Finding the Tail with Dwarkesh Patel
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Apr 23, 2024 |
Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin on the truth about effective altruism
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Highlights: #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
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Mar 29, 2024 |
Highlights: #182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more
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Mar 26, 2024 |
Christian Ruhl on why we're entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
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Mar 21, 2024 |
Highlights: #181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond
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Mar 20, 2024 |
Actually After Hours #2: Coming to America with Joel Becker
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Mar 18, 2024 |
Highlights: #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
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Mar 11, 2024 |
Highlights: #179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
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Feb 26, 2024 |
Actually After Hours #1: Bean Counting with Chana Messinger
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Feb 19, 2024 |
Highlights: #178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
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Feb 15, 2024 |
Highlights: #177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps
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Feb 07, 2024 |
Highlights: #146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren’t conscious
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Jan 25, 2024 |
Highlights: #176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
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Jan 15, 2024 |
Highlights: #175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
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Jan 09, 2024 |
Highlights: #174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Highlights: #173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Career review: AI safety technical research
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Highlights: #147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
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Dec 07, 2023 |
Benjamin Todd on the history of 80,000 Hours
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Dec 01, 2023 |
Highlights: #172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
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Nov 30, 2023 |
Highlights: #148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don’t
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Highlights: #171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Highlights: #170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Highlights: #169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
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Nov 10, 2023 |
Highlights: #168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Highlights: #167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Highlights: #166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
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Nov 04, 2023 |
Highlights: #165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
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Nov 01, 2023 |
Highlights: #164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
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Oct 30, 2023 |
Highlights: #163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Highlights: #162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Highlights: #161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
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Oct 19, 2023 |
Highlights: #160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
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Oct 17, 2023 |
Highlights: #159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
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Oct 09, 2023 |
Highlights: #158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Highlights: #157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
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Sep 26, 2023 |
Highlights: #156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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Sep 22, 2023 |
Highlights: #155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
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Sep 15, 2023 |
Highlights: #154 – Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Alex Lawsen on avoiding 10 mistakes people make when pursuing a high-impact career
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Sep 06, 2023 |
Highlights: #153 – Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work
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Aug 28, 2023 |
Highlights: #152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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Aug 08, 2023 |
Highlights: #151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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Aug 02, 2023 |
Highlights: #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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Jul 25, 2023 |
Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
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Jul 19, 2023 |
Highlights: #149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
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Jul 13, 2023 |
Operations management in high-impact organisations (Article)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
What is social impact? A definition (Article)
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May 17, 2023 |
How to make tough career decisions (Article)
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May 03, 2023 |
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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Apr 22, 2023 |
Career review: Journalism (Article)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Luisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more fun
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Mar 14, 2023 |
China-related AI safety and governance paths (Article)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
Anonymous advice: If you want to reduce AI risk, should you take roles that advance AI capabilities? (Article)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
Is climate change the greatest threat facing humanity today? (Article)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
Marcus Davis on Rethink Priorities
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Dec 12, 2022 |
Preventing catastrophic pandemics (Article)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
Kuhan Jeyapragasan on effective altruism university groups
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Sep 21, 2022 |
Career review: Founder of new projects tackling top problems (Article)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Space governance (Article)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville on forecasting the war in Ukraine
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May 25, 2022 |
Michelle and Habiba on what they’d tell their younger selves, and the impact of the 1-1 team
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Alex Lawsen on his advice for students
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Introducing 80k After Hours
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Feb 24, 2022 |